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One More Fat Nerd posted:I literally stopped reading the thread till I could put Son of Thunderbeast on ignore. Its the only way the thread is readable. I think a lot of folks didnt so much convert as just shut up.  But drawn like HfD
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snergle posted:i love that time to hit the sack webcomic so much ive been making edits with it to convey the sense of doing something that sounds good but is bad. I mean, you ruined the joke. Is that what you were going for
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there are comics posted that i like less than the wizard master ones. won't say which ones tho, cuz i'm okay with folks liking what they like.
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Honestly, hearing that you can get people onto your comic by just being good today, even if it's a rough start is extremely motivating. Like so many people love Thorsby's stuff, and I think that rules. I read every comic that's posted here, but more for analytical? reasons. I like to tear them apart, write down what they're doing that I like, what people in the thread react positively or negatively too. Honestly, just picking your guys brains silently in the background as you say what you liked, don't like, hate, would never read is extremely helpful. I really like HFD, the art is a really hard sell, but somehow he makes it work, you can see he picks up little things about art to make it easier to read, and by being consistent in how his characters talk, look, move, he sets expectations. It's proof that if you can just do one thing right or unique, it'll make up for almost everything else. People will read unexciting comfy (even somewhat boring,) adventures if the art is good and cute. People will read MSPaint comics made with a mouse if the story and characters are engaging. People will read Achewood, because even though there's nothing really there artistically, it's funny. Finding your niche, that one thing you can do right is so important, because that has to be at the forefront when you create for a public audience I think. To talk about me some more, (I am the protagonist of the universe,) I'm sure there's a lot of people with me on ignore, especially when I started posting the comic full size. I'm probably going to be timg-ing it I think, and letting people choose whether they want it full size or not. If you hate the big images and want them timg'd please let me know! Also, if you dislike the comic also let me know. It's hard to get criticism these days, because most people are just going to pass on it and not bother. I'm also celebrating, my website, outside of the forums that I've mostly been advertising through discords, according to my logs has 1718 hits this year. I got 9 referrals from google, so people are actually searching for me. And from this thread, the byob thread, my thread, and a couple of off-site forums I'm reaching almost 350k hits. If I keep growing at this rate, I'm going to hit half a million in a couple of months. God willing I'll hit a million by the end of the year. I've also hit 10k unique hits, which means that my views are coming from people repeatedly returning to read more. The average amount of pages people read of the comic is 35, and that's a huge chunk.
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I'm just glad we're getting all the Thorsby negativity out of the way before the comic actually wraps up. Uhh, a comic 
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Boba Pearl posted:It's been a while since I've done this, but I'd like to check in, and see what people think so far on what I'm doing, if you have an opinion I mean! I love it, it's got a great feel to it.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I literally stopped reading the thread till I could put Son of Thunderbeast on ignore. Its the only way the thread is readable. I think a lot of folks didnt so much convert as just shut up. HfD really is uniquely hideous. I still really like it though. You can feel the artist constantly smashing up against their own limits- and reaching solutions that are weirdly effective at encoding a whole lot of information visually, while remaining utterly nauseating to look at. In a way, HfD's hyper-evolved monsters represent the artist's problem solving processes. The results are monstrous, but nonetheless effective. Anyway. Thorsby's disgusting art is quite bearable if you think of it as hieroglyphics and let the aesthetic bit of your brain switch off entirely.
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Tree Bucket posted:HfD really is uniquely hideous. I still really like it though. You can feel the artist constantly smashing up against their own limits- and reaching solutions that are weirdly effective at encoding a whole lot of information visually, while remaining utterly nauseating to look at. In a way, HfD's hyper-evolved monsters represent the artist's problem solving processes. The results are monstrous, but nonetheless effective. He does understand value though it seems.
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Samovar posted:I don't even know where the Ignore function IS. This poster is doing a bit. You- person reading this assuming everyone must be doing a bit to enjoy that comic- are correct actually in thinking that anyone in here enjoying HfD is just doing so ironically, co-ordinating together to exclude you from something. This is something that everyone is doing, all the time, for everything you don't like too. As soon as you stop saying that you don't like NFTs we'll all stop pretending to and scrap the entire thing to spite you.
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Seems like a poor use of icbms, but I'm not a military guy.       
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Shaking lemur butt posted:
Paging Tree Bucket to the comics thread
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Boba Pearl posted:
I've been reading it. From a critical standpoint it's kind of a tough spot because before I thought it was bad and could articulate the reasons, but it's now become good enough that I don't have any strong feelings about it? Like "it's fine and I read it when it's posted here in a thread I read anyway" is not a helpful comment to someone trying to improve, especially because I could say the same about fully 90% of the comics posted here I guess I've said before I'm impressed with how well you take criticism onboard but maybe you're starting to take it too well, I mean if people are bitching about the comic being too big and putting you on ignore and poo poo because of it I think that's one scenario where you as an artist should be like don't care, gently caress off?
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Captain Hygiene posted:Look buddy the only comic that's gonna make me turn my monitor off is Moon Over June 
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Shaking lemur butt posted:
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Nicely done.
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Should have been a ghost handing it to him, but tres good otherwise.
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Samovar posted:Should have been a ghost handing it to him, but tres good otherwise. for you, an alternate version 
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some plague rats posted:I've been reading it. From a critical standpoint it's kind of a tough spot because before I thought it was bad and could articulate the reasons, but it's now become good enough that I don't have any strong feelings about it? Like "it's fine and I read it when it's posted here in a thread I read anyway" is not a helpful comment to someone trying to improve, especially because I could say the same about fully 90% of the comics posted here Yeah, that makes a ton of sense, and I've heard something similar from my art teacher. I think now if I want to improve I'm gonna have to start reading books and getting tutors. I just bought Framed Ink, so that'll be a good night time read. I honestly think at this point I'm just compliment fishing because I'm pretty happy with what I'm doing now, and I can see my growth.
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Mx. posted:for you, an alternate version 
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loving hell, that's wonderful.
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e-dt posted:And it's time for: Thermometer lane! I like Doctor Andretti's appearances. He seems at first to be a dr spaceman/dr nick analogue, but given how inventive and effective his treatments are, he's actually a hyper competent surgeon.
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     https://nellucnhoj.com/
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good news, it's that comic you hate!   seats are arranged for the owls, although that mouthy one probably doesn't want to put much weight on its rear end at present, having been the meat in an Owl Sandwich stunningly, the small temple depicted with images of owls sheltering is used to shelter owls
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I genuinely like HFD and if someone posts another Thorsby comic then I will read along with that in eager joy as well. This is honestly not a bit.
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Huh, somehow this whole time I thought the lyrics were “I’m not gonna stand in your way” Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:good news, it's that comic you hate! Who the gently caress could hate owl comic?
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Kit Walker posted:Who the gently caress could hate owl comic?  A DIRTY COMMUNUBALIST THAT'SS WHO!
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I don't post much in this thread but honestly once HFD is done all pyf comic threads should just be closed and no more made.
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organburner posted:I don't post much in this thread but honestly once HFD is done all pyf comic threads should just be closed and no more made. Same but for Nedroid.
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Aramoro posted:I hate HfD as well as its terrible garbage and I'm still convinced the people saying they love it are doing bit. But I still don't ignore it for this reason, makes finding a good comic so much better. Its not a bit or a troll, I also thought that at first but I was wrong. Some folks just like weirdo outsider art. Though I will say that at this point there is a chunk of the internet thats so deep into intentional contrarianism that the line between "actual opinion" and "troll opinion" doesn't really exist anymore. I am certain if someone started posting Moon Over June, it would find an authentic defender. I ignore at least partially cause I have an older android and not great wireless signal and the comics were a mile long and getting posted 5 at a time, multiple times per page. The thread was unreadable in both a figurative and literal sense.
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I like HfD because its the kind of plot which makes absolutely zero loving sense at a glance, but if you follow along it had genuinely clever writing moments that the art hides because you can chalk something up to him being a poo poo artist making a mistake. The art itself is not good, but he foreshadows a lot of stuff which demands you pay attention to his lovely art because there are important details hidden within. I'm genuinely going to reread all of it once the last panel is posted to find other foreshadowing moments
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Mx. posted:for you, an alternate version Thank you!!!
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the people pretending that HfD exists are doing a bit. HfD isn't real, just like ghosts.
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I literally lurk this thread just for HfD. In threads past I've seen it recommended, but never got past the art style. This time... it clicked.
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Coffee Grindr posted:I literally lurk this thread just for HfD. In threads past I've seen it recommended, but never got past the art style. This time... it clicked. Yeah, for me it took until the end of that magic portal monsters arc to really click, but I've enjoyed it ever since, and having someone posting it in the thread each day whether I liked it or not helped me get to that point. I still wouldn't call it one of my favourite webcomics, but the things it does do well are rare to see done well. I haven't seen that kind of plotted chaos since the first season of Love Advice From The Great Duke Of Hell, and maybe before that some of the early acts of Homestuck? Tenebrais has a new favorite as of 15:02 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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